As the snow begins to fall just days before Christmas Grandad helps Sara build an igloo in the garden with a small snow bear to watch over it. & when Sara wakes in the middle of the night it looks very different outside. She sets out on an enchanted journey through a world of ice but will she ever find her way home... ...

Snow Blind" is yet another top ten bestseller from the chilling PJ Tracy. " The Dead of Winter"... Minneapolis winters first white flakes; a park full of snowmen. But the layers of packed snow hide a goulish surprise... First the bodies of two cops are found inside the snowmen & then a day later in the countryside to the north Sheriff Iris Rikker makes a similarly shocking discovery. Soon Detectives Gino & Magozzi are sent north through the worst blizzard Minnesotas seen for years to find what else links the investigations. But some secrets you dont want to uncover. & as the cases unravel it seems snowmen arent the only ones with something to hide... From the author of " Live Bait" & " Dead Run" comes PJ Tracys " Snow Blind". Grace Mac Bride & Detectives Gino & Magozzi are back for more. Fans of Lisa Gardiner & Karen Rose will love this. Praise for PJ Tracy: "A fast-paced gripping read with thrills & devilish twists". (" Guardian"). " Outrageously suspenseful". (Harlan Coben). "PJ Tracy is about to become a household name". (" Daily Mirror"). P.J. Tracy is the pseudonynm for the mother-&-daughter writing team of P.J. & Traci Lambrecht. They are the authors of the award-winning & bestselling thrillers " Live Bait" " Dead Run" " Snow Blind" " Play to Kill" & the Richard & Judy Book Club pick " Want to Play?" All five books feature detectives Gino & Magozzi & maverick computer hacker Grace Mc Bride. P.J. & Traci both live near Minneapolis Minnesota." ...

One snowy Christmas Eve a small bunny goes in search of Santa to ask him to make her Christmas wish come true. She packs everything she might need for the journey & leaves her cosy burrow & sets out through the snow on her quest. On the way she meets many other animals all in need of a little help
- which she gladly offers
- & in the offering makes her own wish come true!

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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize 2013. A bewitching tale of heartbreak & hope set in 1920s Alaska The Snow Child was a bestseller on hardback publication & went on to establish itself as one of the key literary debuts of 2012 & was a Richard & Judy Bookclub pick. Alaska the 1920s. Jack & Mabel have staked everything on a fresh start in a remote homestead but the wilderness is a stark place & Mabel is haunted by the baby she lost many years before. When a little girl appears mysteriously on their land each is filled with wonder but also foreboding: is she what she seems & can they find room in their hearts for her? Written with the clarity & vividness of the Russian fairy tale from which it takes its inspiration The Snow Child is an instant classic. ...

Its going to be woof-onderful! There is nothing Nicky wants more in the world than a dog to play with. But Mum & Dad dont want a dog. Then Grandad has an idea
- he & Nicky can make a dog: a snow-dome dog. Even better he has some special clay found at the end of a rainbow so that the dog will be extra-special. Maybe even magic...
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In 1954 a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat & a local Japanese-American man is charged with his murder. In the course of his trial it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than one mans guilt. For on San Piedro memories grow as thickly as cedar trees & the fields of ripe strawberries
- memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy & a Japanese girl; memories of land desired paid for & lost. Above all San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbours watched.
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Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer & to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape & size of her feet this is extraordinary good luck. Lily now has the power to make a good marriage & change the fortunes of her family. To prepare for her new life she must undergo the agonies of footbinding learn nu shu the famed secret women's writing & make a very special friend Snow Flower. But a bitter reversal of fortune is about to change everything. ...

WINNER OF THE HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR One winter after an enforced period of quiet William Fiennes finds himself restless & yearning for adventure. Inspired by his reading about the migratory patterns of birds he flies to Texas to find the million-strong flocks of snow geese & to follow them on their spring flight thousands of miles north to breeding grounds on the Arctic tundra. This mesmerizing book already a classic captures their journey with wisdom humility & endless curiosity. It is a meditation on freedom of movement on seeing the world anew & on the joy of returning -- indefinably changed. Why are we drawn to birds to landscape to nature? It is for the sense of wonder -- & in capturing that sense of wonder Fiennes reminds us how desperately we all need it Sunday Telegraph The Snow Geese moved me as have few other recent books. No one who reads it is likely to continue to look at the world in the same way Times Literary Supplement A beautifully solitary & beautifully reflective book Evening Standard The descriptions of the geese & their environment are jaw-droppingly beautiful. But Fiennes most remarkable talent is for describing the"idian with such freshness that it is like seeing the world for the first time Mail on Sunday An inspired work of natural history & travel. A classic Irish Independent ...

Philip Rhayader lives alone in an abandoned lighthouse on the desolate Great Marsh of Essex. One afternoon a hauntingly beautiful child Fritha visits Rhayader bringing with her an injured snow goose. At first Fritha is scared of Rhayader with his sinister hump & crooked hand but he is gentle & kind & Fritha begins to visit regularly. When the snow goose departs for home Rhayader is left alone again. The following winter the snow goose & Fritha return to the lighthouse. Time passes & one year Fritha is frightened to discover her feelings for Rhayader. But this is 1940 & Rhayader is setting sail for Dunkirk to help the soldiers trapped on the beaches. Fritha never sees Rhayader again. But the story of the saviour with the snow goose passes from soldier to soldier & into legend... ...

This is a classic storytelling from a bestselling author. Gallico's most famous story The Snow Goose" is set in the wild desolate Essex marshes & is an intense & moving tale about the relationship between a hunchback & a young girl. " The Small Miracle" is a contemporary fable about a young boy's love for his dangerously ill donkey." ...